Three Mexicans Facing Death Penalty Prepare for Last Appeal in Malaysia Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original August 27, 2014

Three Mexican brothers sentenced to death in Malaysia are preparing to file their last appeal before the Federal Court in Malaysia, which could hold the hearing before the end of the year, the defense said.

“The hearing will most probably take place before the end of the year, the Federal Court judges have to review a lot of documents pertaining to the case,” Kitson Foong, the lawyer of Mexicans Luis Alfonso, Simon and Jose Regino Gonzalez Villarreal, told Efe.

According to Foong, the brothers are being held in jail in the state of Pahang, some 185 km northwest of Kuala Lumpur.

The Mexicans were arrested on March 4, 2008 in a police raid in the southern city of Johor along with a Malaysian and a Singaporean citizen who have also been given the death penalty.

All five were found in the vicinity of a ship where police agents seized 29 kilograms of methamphetamine valued at $15 million, a third of which disappeared in police custody.

The Gonzalez Villarreal brothers, natives of the state of Sinaloa, claim that they were only employed to clean the place and that they were not aware of the consignment.

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